Ejections 031-33 - Blue Jays pitcher Yimi Garcia, coach Pete Walker & manager Charlie Montoyo Tossed 

This mess lies at the feet of Marquez and his crew. They blew the Donaldson HBP out of proportion. NOBODY expected ejections there. Not even the Yankees. And their overreaction lost them control of this game. Umpire conferences after HBP were supposed to allow things to cool, instead, this conference was a lesson in confirmation bias where some or all of these 4 invented a problem that very likely didn’t actually exist. Not a good look for this crew.

We gravely apologize for missing the "money's worth" chime at 3:56.

Montoya leaving the dugout for the field has to be a litmus test of some sort for the horrific umpiring that has gone on this year. Just wow.

Seems very heavy handed to toss Garcia (less so Walker because it's not his fight to fight), I'll agree that's it a perfect storm situation though. An unfortunate situation for the Jays

Love Montoya's reaction to figuring out he is the one thrown out. Truly can't believe it.

In this case, rightly or wrongly, I think the Umps turned it from a "tense situation" with the second hit-by-pitch, into an "angry" situation, for both sides, but especially for the Blue Jays. With Donaldson, going by the video, I think Warnings would have sufficed. Montoya wouldn't have been happy, but I think that would have sufficed. Then, after the Blue Jay pitcher got ejected for hitting the batter, anything close, like that later pitch you showed, it's just going to piss off the Blue Jays if they see, what they perceive, as unequal treatment by the Umps. Long story short, rightly or wrongly, I think the Umps turned a tense situation into just short of a storm, between those teams.

I haven't done the research on these 4 umpires, but this is one of those situations where and why it always hurts when players (even at the HS level) don't umpire after their careers are over. Instead you have persons who never played the game and don't understand the nuances arbitrating the "unwritten" aspect of it. No one on either side thought that was intentional - 3-3 game, 6th inning, 0-1 count. But 4 MLB Umpires who have made it through 10-15 years of training did. So with that being said, I would have to agree with Lindsay there HAS to be more to this. Somewhere those officials were told by MLB about something else going on or they had other information we don't. I hope. Man, I hope.

The confusion in the Yankees dugout says it all

Umpires impacting a game once again. Just let them play baseball. As a fan that’s all I ask for!

Hopefully this gets the MLB to change their minds on crew conferences for intentional HBPs. It does nothing to correct one-sided officiating in games like these.

That was Crazy 3 Blue Jays EJECTED

Man, this is worse than last year with Acuna. This is getting out of hand. It's funny that CCS would mention Jomboy.

A few things: First- the "I'm done with you" hand waive by the crew chief when ejecting Garcia was demeaning and unprofessional. The level of umpire unprofessionalism needs to be corrected by MLB in these situations. Secondly, when ejecting the pitching coach, the crew chief, again, nearly hit Montoyo in the face. I typically defend umpires and believe that they have every right to engage in heated arguments with managers/coaches/players. And I'm tired of hearing people say that unpires are "ruining the game". (There's a lot ruining the game, including the players' union, the umpires' union, large market owners' greed, no salary caps, no profit sharing, etc...) Nonetheless, the level of general professionalism anong umpires needs to step up. For example, what happened with in the recent Bumgarner - Dan Bollino confrontation is far below an acceptable level of decency and professionalism. Likewise, the handling of this situation falls short of the mark.

Amazing that you can have a crew of four umpires talk it over and somehow not one of them had the common sense to assess the situation and realize it couldn’t possibly be intentional. Garcia sequences his slider and 4/2-seamer off each other (just check baseball savant to see how he works both edges of the plate with them). After the first pitch sinker, a fastball in (that got away) to set up another slider away makes a lot more sense than plunking a guy to put the go ahead run on base in the 6th inning. The whole crew blew this one.

In our umpire chats, while we'd refer to a player who's likely to get targeted as "hot", the real adjectives we'd use (with a journalist, for example) would be "magnetic and controversial", or simply "involved in interpersonal conflicts with other involved players or staff members". Great coverage!

I like what both you and Jomboy do. Happy to subscribe!

Ok so the Yankees throw and hit Gurriel jr nothing happens 🤔 Garcia hits donaldson and it’s thrown outta the game 🤔 WTF

This was just straight up incompetence by an umpiring crew. It was the 2nd pitch of the at bat, the game was tied, the balls had been terrible all night, and Donaldson, who is known to overreact to things, didn't even react. And considering the 3 other umpires are relatively inexperience in the League, this falls on Marquez, which to be fair doesn't surprise me, he seems like a fine umpire when not doing Blue Jays games, but when he does Blue Jays games he becomes incompetent, I'm not one for conspiracy theories but it seems to happen more than enough to be a coincidence.

Josh Donaldson said after the game that him and the Blue Jays Catcher had some words before the AB. It’s likely the umpire heard it since he was right there, so he deemed it intentional because of that.

Lot of ejections today. First this game and then Mariners vs. Phillies there were 2. This should be a fun watch

This video should be put in an umpires training manual of what NOT TO DO on one of these decisions on throwing someone out. I can't even think of the logic that went in with this decision.

I'm just concerned that there was no added sound effect at 3:46.

Umpires don’t even know the game. What a joke

If they issue warnings, I think Boone gets ejected and tries to retaliate the next game. Ejecting Garcia is the better long term decision, but smothering a heated situation still burns your hands.

The comment about Montoyo covering his mouth cracked me up a little. I don't even think there's any animosity between the Jays and Yankees as far as I'm aware of. Even if Donaldson is a shithead, there's nothing that warrants being thrown at. Especially in a late tied game. Warnings would have sufficed and not set off this shitshow.

It is normal that the next guy gets wacked after a home run in certain situations, but ejections where crazy and uncalled for, maybe a warning to both benches.

"It would have been an argument either way." Sure, but in one case your pitcher gets ejected, and in the other case he doesn't. These are not the same.

I know this channel defends umpires but the umpires were wrong here. Not even a question.

Something that should have been a mitigating factor-why would you bring in a reliever to throw at a batter on his second pitch? If you're going to do that, then leave the guy in who gave up the home run so you don't waste a pitcher. I hate to say it, but I think if this exact thing happened if these same two teams were playing in Toronto, we don't see any ejections. I think the Yankee stadium crowd influenced the decision. It's not supposed to, but I think it did.

Umps made a mess of this one. MLB needs to go back to the old way of handling this shit. The new method sucks and the umps get it wrong more often than not

Shocker … umps needed to make the game about them .

IMO if you throw out the first pitcher you have to throw out the second pitcher. They both seem to be the same level of intentionality.

whatever happened to the rule that any park built for a professional team after June 1, 1958, had to be 325 down the lines ?

Why in the hell would he be throwing at someone in a tied game in the 6th?

Couple of updates. First: no further punishments for the Blue Jays. Second: JomBoy just go in on the action (Ask and ye shall receive).

I love the Jomboy nod for lips-reading...and the subtle dig for "come back for the rules analysis"

You missed the getting his money’s worth sound!!!

Big mistakes from the umps honestly, Donaldson is beloved by the Jays organization so no one is ever going to throw at him intentionally. Also, 3-3 game and if it was intentional he would’ve thrown at him with the first pitch of the at bat. Warnings would’ve defused everything, coaches would’ve still been in the game, and this game would’ve ended differently whether the Yankees or Jays go onto win.

CCS: What would you think of ejecting the manager at all times, whether warnings are given or not, if a pitcher of theirs is ejected for an intentional HBP? (I know it's in the rules (and it usually happens anyway, like here (though this one took longer than most!)) -- I'd like to see it become mandatory.) My only wonder with the umps on this one is: Why an 0-1 pitch instead of the first pitch?

Where's our video game sound at 3:55 for "get his money worth" we love that about this channel!! :)

Wow. Yankees fan. Bad call.

Marquez told Garcia, “Number 93 of Toronto, YOU’RE OUTTA HERE!!!”

Such a Grey area in that game. Donaldson is a former MVP with the Bluejays.. it was stated from broadcasts with the grip issues with with baseballs, and both sides having control issues with such. Game's tied, why intentionally hit someone to put the lead run on base. Crazy almost no win situation to determine actual intent or lack of

Once again jays get screwed Not only do they have to taken on that Yankees line up but the incompetent umps as well

Ahh, Yankee favoritism.

4:20 - that is a big fine and a hefty suspension right there.

Umpires are out of control!

The ball slipped out of his hand

I guess umps this year aren’t using common sense. Should’ve been warnings. If anything warnings should have been given out when the blue jays player was hit. Their logic isn’t making any sense.

We need a jomboy media breakdown asap

It was an 0-1 count in a tie game why would he deck him in that scenario

Umps are the stars of the show. And they will always remind you of that.

This was so bad that everyone. Yankees announcers, fans, and even Boone are all like WTF

4:48 Boone lookin' like he's due any day now

Toronto managers get thrown out more than any other team.

Yankee stadium is smaller than my high school field. I think i was 14 was last time I played on a field that was only 314 to right

Dang

Notice how the Yankees fans clap at how almost Bo gets hit??? Congrats Yankee fans, your getting more and more disrespectful every game

Let's add gasoline to this fire: this season in particular has had pitchers complaining about the manufacture and quality of balls used in MLB. Reputable pitchers, too. Then the latest scandal about increasing RPM by using unknown substances is growing and ugly talk is leaking out. Could it be that some of this HBP relates to hard-to-handle balls and a drive to increase speed of rotation? Let's step out of the box of payback and send-'em-a-message for just one second. Slips happen.

Some of the umpires learned the rules out of the cracker jack box

What? The hbp's were even at one and one. Its a tie game in the 6th inning. A warning to both sides was all that was needed.

I wonder what prompted MLB to implement the rule where the umps had to confer before making decisions on warnings or ejections. It seems like the immediate reaction by the home plate ump was necessary.

If the umps were affirmatively briefed before game, the first hbp should have been an ejection. And then Garcia. If no issues were noted prior to game, both hbp should only have resulted in being on notice after second one with no ejection. Instead, this creates a scenario of "freebie first one." Teams will use that knowledge.

Boone standing there, thinking,,,,"yaaa ff yaaa,,thanks Rob Manfred and MLB,, " Of course if a yankee does it, nothing happens

Good call, good call indeed

I believe the umpires are just putting an end to their jobs even faster.

Only in New York.

Crew Chief made this terrible

You missed a “monies worth” coin sound in this one.

I see an out of control crew. Inconsistent. Are they twos and threes, or threes and fours, or whatever? So one player is more agile and can get out of the way of a wild pitch. Where were the warnings? Thanks again for a great video.

yep little leauge park lol

I think almolst all umpires are against the Blue Jays and there's evidence of it over the years other teams pitchers can go after Toronto batters nothing happens but when a blue Jays pitcher un intentionality hit a batter they get ejected from the game that's what I believe

The pitcher definitely seems like he lost this ball. You can see his throwing motion ends up all wonky. I feel like pitchers are going to start throwing at players on purpose and then act all apologetic, because this pitcher just moves on casually from hitting the batter, but if he acted all upset about hitting the guy, he probably doesn't get tossed.

The Benidorm of the doubt absolutely should have been used here and instead the crew created a worse situation. Logic and common sense were absent from this and then to run Montoya just destroyed the credibility of that crew. Terrible.

And how you can agree with this is quite questionable.. Js

Blue Jays have a disproportionate amount of ejections lol.

The pitching coach and players should be able to argue without being restrained as well. As long as they aren’t trying to attack the umpire. That’s the way it used to be and it should be like that now. Yelling at them to get out while they are being forcibly restrained is a bad look for umpires. This is for both teams and umpires, just let them have their say and they’ll usually storm off. No need to grab them and hold them back especially the coaches. I’ve seen coaches that argue more calmly than managers.

Wow, umpires were pretty awful in this game

Show me in the MLB rule book that you can’t bring up warnings when their in place.

Who won this game anyway?

Surprised the umps didn’t toss Matt Chapman in todays game (5-11) for hitting a sac fly. The situation here in this video was just stupid. Umps ruined the game

The ump show

The list of rules they decide you are unable to argue or question is authoritarian and ridiculous. It's a cop saying you cant ask why you've been pulled over. Its cowardly

Your comment about Donaldson. There is no ill intent from Donaldson to Toronto or vise versa. Absolutely no way jays intentionally hits Donaldson ever. Get your facts

these umpires should be ashamed of themselves.

Montoya has his hands on the umps, alot

This has nothing to do with the players or coaches, it's the umpires trying to get their moment in the spotlight. Coaches and players have to force this issue to be taken up with the league. The Umpires are included in the box score now. F ing ridiculous.

You are wrong they didn't go argue they yelled from the dugout big difference.

C'mon blue!

I usually come to this page for the real view, and I like that defense of the umpires happens here. It definitely always gives a different viewpoint to Jomboy ("Uh, I don't know what the rule is, but I think the umpire screwed up." -Seems to be a line in every one of his videos.) Occasionally, however, it does seem like you go overboard trying to explain the umpire's actions away. This was a bad call to eject. (From a Braves fan. No dog in this fight.)

He got mad

First MLB needs to fix the screwed up baseball's they have had this season. both batter and pitchers have been making several complaints about it. It's possible that MAYBE that is what happened here. Second MLB needs to start allowing for the Teams to file grievances against umpires. As long as there is no way to fine or have umpires suspended for their actions, this will continue on and will only get worse. There's already been plenty of examples just this season alone to make this happen. MLB loves to take a look every off season as to how to change the rules and try and make the game better, They should really start looking at the umpires and see what they can change that way too. As a side 3rd comment, for me personally I really wish the managers would protest the games more and have it actually mean something, like it can lead to the umpires being investigated, fined, and just like with the players if this happens enough time even suspended without pay. Whether that means a single umpire or the whole crew for that game/series. The rare times that manager goes out and actually does make an official protest, it amounts to nothing. To be clear, by protesting I don't mean just by going out and arguing the situation. I mean when the umpire has to actually turn around in front home plate and make the P sign.

3:55 forgot the coin sound. For your moneys worth.

Horrible call, mlb umps have been especially horrendous this season..

Covering his mouth so Jomboy can't read his lips 🤣

Bring on the robots

It’s not unusual to intentionally walk a guy in a tie game so why not hit the guy instead?

im so done with these annoucers you hit better after homerun its clear pretty much there no denying it

why don’t the umpires get together on the last pitch it’s okay if it’s not an ejection but shouldn’t they get together to talk about it

WHERES MY MONEYS WORTH SOUND EFFECT